04.22.2026 This part of the site is still evolving.
Vendors in this space can be broken into three groups: ASIC-Based, FPGA-Based, and FPGA Bitstreams. FPGA Bitstreams are added because they become the new personality of the card on which they are loaded. For example, Napatech offers six different bitstreams for its cards, allowing a board to easily be reconfigured from a Capture SmartNIC to a storage- or virtualization-focused card, hence it is in both columns.
Clicking a company name below will either take you to that company or, in the near future, to a page sharing our review of that company and its position in the SmartNIC market.